Notice2025-18865
Accrediting Agency Currently Undergoing Review During the Period of Recognition by the U.S. Secretary of Education
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September 29, 2025
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Education Department
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This notice provides information to members of the public on submitting written comments for accrediting agencies currently undergoing review during the period of recognition by the U.S. Secretary of Education.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 186 (Monday, September 29, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46583-46584]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-18865]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Accrediting Agency Currently Undergoing Review During the Period
of Recognition by the U.S. Secretary of Education
AGENCY: U.S. Department of Education, Accreditation Group, Office of
Postsecondary Education.
ACTION: Call for written third-party comments.
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SUMMARY: This notice provides information to members of the public on
submitting written comments for accrediting agencies currently
undergoing review during the period of recognition by the U.S.
Secretary of Education.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before October 31, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Daggett, Director,
Accreditation Group, Office of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department
of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Room 5C104, Washington, DC 20202,
telephone: (202) 453-7615, or email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4520292c3f242720312d6b212422222031310520216b222a33"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2c494045564d4e49584402484d4b4b4958586c4948024b435a">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This request for written third-party
comments concerning the performance of accrediting agencies during
their period of recognition is pursuant to 34 Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) Sec. 602.33(c)(4)(iii)(B).
Additional information for this accrediting agency will be added to
the agenda for the Winter 2026 National Advisory Committee on
Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) meeting, notice of which
was published November 6, 2024 (89 FRN 88046). The meeting date and
location have not been determined but will be announced in a later
Federal Register notice.
Agencies Under Review and Evaluation:
The Department requests written comments from the public on the
following accrediting agency, which is currently undergoing review and
evaluation during their period of recognition by the Department's
Office of Postsecondary Education Accreditation Group, in accordance
with the procedures set forth in 34 CFR 602.33. Inquiries under 34 Code
of Federal Regulations (CFR) Sec. 602.33: Midwifery Education
Accreditation Council (MEAC).
a. 34 CFR 602.33 review initiated by inquiry letter dated March 19,
2025 (letter available at <a href="https://www.ed.gov/laws-and-policy/higher-education-laws-and-policy/college-accreditation/accreditation-postsecondary-education-institutions">https://www.ed.gov/laws-and-policy/higher-education-laws-and-policy/college-accreditation/accreditation-postsecondary-education-institutions</a>). The review has identified
noncompliance with the Criteria in 34 CFR 602.15(a)(1).
Submission of Written Comments Regarding a Specific Accrediting
Agency Under Review:
Written comments about the recognition of a specific accrediting
agency must be received on or before October 31, 2025, in the
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4a1e2223382e1a2b383e33092527272f243e390a2f2e642d253c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e0b488899284b081929499a38f8d8d858e9493a08584ce878f96">[email protected]</span></a> mailbox and include the subject line
``Written Comments: (agency name).'' The email must include the
name(s), title, organization/affiliation, mailing address, email
address, and telephone number of the person(s) making the comment.
Comments should be submitted as a Microsoft Word document or in a
medium compatible with Microsoft Word (not a PDF file) that is attached
to an electronic mail message (email) or provided in the body of an
email message. Comments about an agency must relate to the agency's
compliance with the Criteria identified in the inquiry finding
specifically listed above.
The Criteria are available at <a href="https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-34/subtitle-B/chapter-VI/part-602?toc=1">https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-34/subtitle-B/chapter-VI/part-602?toc=1</a>.
Only written material submitted by the deadline to the email
address listed in this notice, and in accordance with these
instructions, become part of the official record concerning agencies
scheduled for review and are considered by the Department and NACIQI in
their deliberations.
A later Federal Register notice will describe how to register to
provide oral comments at the Winter 2026 meeting regarding the
recognition of a specific accrediting agency or State approval agency.
Electronic Access to this Document: The official version of this
document is the document published in the Federal Register. Free
internet access to the official edition of the Federal Register and the
Code of Federal Regulations is available via the Federal Digital System
at: <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys">www.gpo.gov/fdsys</a>. At this site you
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(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1011c.)
Signing Authority
This document of the U.S. Department of Education was signed on
September 24, 2025, by Christopher J. McCaghren, ED.D., Acting
Assistant Secretary Office of Postsecondary Education. That document
with the original signature and date is maintained by the U.S.
Department of Education. For administrative purposes only, and in
compliance with requirements of the Office of the Federal Register, the
undersigned has been authorized to sign the document in electronic
format for publication, as an official document of the U.S. Department
of Education. This administrative process in no way alters the legal
effect of this document upon publication in the Federal Register.
Tracey St. Pierre,
Director, Office of Executive Secretariat, Office of the Secretary,
U.S. Department of Education.
[FR Doc. 2025-18865 Filed 9-26-25; 8:45 am]
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